Authority
in example sentence
The old mandate was very simple and very single: if you're in a position of power or
authority
, you're responsible for your own people and your own tiny slice of territory, and that's it.
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What I wanted to show you is that scientists, using their from-the-outside, third-person methods, can tell you things about your own consciousness that you would never dream of, and that, in fact, you're not the
authority
on your own consciousness that you think you are.
He was telling them they no longer had any moral authority, that nobody needed them for emotional support anymore, and they were not really the providers.
The problem with this proposition is that the Chinese state enjoys more legitimacy and more
authority
amongst the Chinese than is true with any Western state.
And in an age that is sometimes nowadays frightening or confusing, we feel reassured by the almost parental-like
authority
of experts who tell us so clearly what it is we can and cannot do.
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